Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1907 — Against His Grain. [ARTICLE]

Against His Grain.

Amos Carle’s wife rules him “with a rod of iron.” This his friends well know, and one evening lately, when he joined the circle in Sim Hayward’s grocery and showed no amusement at Joe Piper’s jests, they knew that in his mind he was retracing certain painful domestic incidents of recent occurrence. On being approached as to the cause of his silence, he explained that he was down on his luck. “P’r’aps you don’t know your luck,” suggested Joe Piper, winking behind the back of Amos at the company generally. “There may be a thought too much lemon In her,” said Mr. Hayward, driving straight to the mark. “But she has the courage of the masculine gender.” “So have I, if I was let to show It,” Amos said, with a sigh. “That’s the mischief of It “If I’d been a weak man, ready to knock under and play second fiddle without whimpering, It wouldn’t have mattered. But I ain’t at all that sort of kind of man by nature, and It hurts ray feelings like time to be made to do it”